The book recounts an unprecedented event in military history: the penetration of the enemy's plans through the cracking of the German Enigma machine cipher by the Western Allies of the anti-Hitler coalition. Until recently, the most important aspect of this event remained unclear: was the role played by the codebreakers in achieving victory over Germany during World War II truly so significant?...

The author examines the history of Russian/Soviet trade and economic cooperation with Turkey. The book covers both the Tsarist period of the last 19th century, trade with the new Turkish Republic and the USSR and from 1991-2001.

The book by historian A.V. Shubin is dedicated to the dramatic era of the 1930s and early 1940s – an era that began with the Great Depression and ended with the Second World War. This study tells about the social processes and figures that influenced the development of civilization, about tragic coincidences and missed opportunities, and about the debates that we still have about that time,...

The author examines the link/attraction of contemporary terrorist/liberation movements to the ideology of Marxism/Leninism.

Joachim Wieder's book is the most vivid and reliable account of the Wehrmacht's Stalingrad catastrophe. It consists of two parts. The first is a collection of direct personal impressions of a man who survived the tragedy, and the second is an attempt at a critical analysis of the role of German military commanders in the Stalingrad disaster – Field Marshals Paulus and Manstein, and General...

The author examines the rebuilding of the German fleet.

PQ 17 was the code name for an Allied World War II convoy in the Arctic Ocean. In July 1942, the Arctic convoys suffered a significant defeat when Convoy PQ 17 lost 24 of its 35 merchant ships during a series of heavy enemy daylight attacks which lasted a week.

The history of INTERPOL, the organization that is active in over 179 countires.